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Possible Delay for Next-Gen Chevy and GMC Trucks

Many carmakers have announced disruptions and delays to production due to uncontrollable circumstances stemming from last month’s disaster in Japan. General Motors, however, announced today that the possible delay of its next-generation full-sized trucks is by choice.

GM CEO Dan Akerson believes that it doesn’t make sense to accelerate the rollout of new trucks in the midst of rising fuel costs. "Trucks would not be a program that we’d move up in a mileage-sensitive market," he said.In a recent report by the Associated Press, the price for a barrel of oil jumped above $110 for the first time since September 2008. In addition, “Americans are paying $247 million more per day at the pump than they were at the start of the year,” the report stated.

According to Akerson, GM will implement a contingency plan if oil jumps over $120 in November, though details of the plan weren’t released.Akerson’s announcement likely doesn’t sit well with dealers. Trucks have traditionally been the biggest profit maker in an automaker’s product portfolio and many dealers are eager to start selling the next-gen Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra. Also unknown is the fate of the GMC Sierra All Terrain HD concept that was unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show and has had a positive reaction from the press and public. The All Terrain would be GM’s answer to Ford’s souped-up F-150 SVT Raptor and Ram’s Power Wagon truck.

Not surprisingly, GM sedans and small cars have taken priority and center stage. The 2013 Chevy Malibu, for example, was unveiled at this week’s New York and Shanghai Auto Show with much fanfare, and Akerson is pushing for a sale date of Spring 2012, four months earlier than originally planned. Chevy’s smaller sedan, the Cruze, was recently released in the U.S. market and has been a success thus far; it was the brand’s top seller for the first quarter of 2011.With gas prices showing no signs of easing anytime soon, it’s possible the delay will allow GM to develop additional fuel-sipping powertrains. The Silverado and Sierra are already offered with hybrid technology, but will they follow Ford’s lead and offer a turbocharged V6?Source: Automotive News (subscription required), AP

experts nothing, bunch of hot air...
GM this is a really bad idea, the next trucks where to be more effecient then even Fords beloved ecoboost F150 that's enoughf of a reason to redesign em on time get a temperary one up on the competition while it matters..

AutoMax is more than willing to do something about the crappiest CEO on planet Dan Akerson!!!
To prove AutoMax would make a better CEO than Dan Akerson AutoMax will work for 1 year for FREE to turn GM around and to prove AutoMax isn’t just pulling your cord on this one, AutoMax will even throw in $1 million dollars worth of his own money if GM doesn’t become the most desirable car company in America once again with AutoMax at the helm!!!
AutoMax hates censorship filters this is true!!!
AutoMax is also sick and tired of brain-dead CEOs like Dan Akerson sitting in the corporate stall up on the top floor jacking off while GM continues to go down the shitter.
The fact GM doesn’t have real off road package is the biggest travesty against mankind AutoMax can possibly think of!!! The Z71 is now a joke with tiny little tires, looks like a girl’s truck compared to modern off roaders!!!
Then we get teased with a ZR2 and later a GMC HD All-Terrain!!!
You are correct, a new 6.2 DI and a luxury option with a LS9 sport truck is also needed. To save money AutoMax would drop the 6.0 and 5.3 similar to how the 5.0 and 5.7 were all dropped. AutoMax would keep the 6.6L diesel however bump it up to 1,000 HP so Ford would have some catching up to do.
AutoMax would then open a chain of fuel stations branded as the best option for GM vehicles, this would be another profit center for GM. And it would also give AutoMax room to play on price by throwing in a gas voucher for those thinking a 6.2 DI might be a little heavy on gas.
Then AutoMax would go ahead with a 3.6 DI twin turbo engine which would go into anything too small to hold a V8.
AutoMax would also work on a new V10 DI And V12 DI engine lineup to compete with Mercedes, etc.
AutoMax has tons of ideas however he can’t say them all here because this is just a small sampling of what the new GM would look like.
The new GM Dan Akerson officially gave to all of us is a third world Chinese welfare mobile poverty center, thanks, if that is what the new GM is, AutoMax will take the old GM any day as AutoMax hates nothing more than cheaply made Asian knock off tin can mobiles.
Dan Akerson, kindly go and find one of your cheap tin can cars of yours and then drive it straight up your no good money sucking candy ass!!!
AutoMax can do your job 1,000 times better for FREE without pay for 1 year simply to prove he is ten times the man you’ll ever be and that’s the bottom-line because AutoMax said so!!! AUTOMAX!!! :mrgreen:

Finally, someone willing to do something about crappy CEOs! LOL. Despite being a little crazy, AutoMax makes some good points...and found a way past the censorship filter, lol. A true off-road package should be easy, the tech is already there on the aftermarket. And even if they kept the same body and frame setup (cause really, what's wrong with it?) they should at least change the engine offerings! A 3.6 DI, 5.3 DI and 6.0 DI would be excellent motors in the full size trucks. The 3.6 is already made, and adapting that tech to the 5.3 and 6.0 should be a cakewalk. Oh wait, they probably laid off those engineers to pay Akerson... Well I guess GMs screwed then!

AutoMax here, I’ve been reading in the background all of this Motor Trend B.S. and chose to remain silent as most of the articles made AutoMax too mad to put his thoughts into words plus AutoMax has been too busy to comment much as of late as he’s more into booties and driving cars, not reading about cars online.
However this news about CEO Dan Akerson delaying the production of the new Sierra and Silverado pickups is shocking to say the least!!!
AutoMax has half a mind to make a trip to Detroit or wherever that candy ass SOB Dan Akerson is hiding and stomping a mud hole into his candy ass!!!
It doesn’t matter if a barrel of fuel is $200 each because the fact of the matter is we need new pickup trucks NOW!!!
First GM canceled the HUMMER lineup, later the XLR-V, one of the few cars they made which was good for summertime driving and now they have crap little white and blue screens on the dash of most of the new cars being released.
The My Ford Touch with full color screens is 10,000% better, AutoMax use to like GM however as of late the entire company has gone down the toilet.
No answer for the Raptor, no answer for My Ford Touch and products more suitable for third world nations abound from GM.
AutoMax will NEVER buy a Camaro with the cheap looking dash!!! No color touch screen = no AutoMax!!!
What we really need is the HUMMER lineup brought back and Pontiac as well plus we need a Trans AM for real!!!
The only vehicle keeping AutoMax a GM fan was the GMC Sierra All Terrain HD and now that it is gone/delayed AutoMax is seriously going to reconsider buying a Raptor once his HUMMER wears out which shows no signs of wearing out as it runs like new, but it is important to have a contingency plan nevertheless.
In conclusion, as Donald Trump would say, YOU’RE FIRED GM CEO Dan Akerson as you clearly don’t know if your ass is bored or punched!!!
Now take your cheap looking Chinese cars back to Asia, line them up on a beach and wait for the next Tsunami coming by to wash those pieces of crap out into the Pacific ocean to rust away because nobody is going to buy them, we want color touch screens or no sales, Ford has totally dominated GM and the main reason why is due to Dan Akerson being such a complete retard ass clown know nothing scum bag!!!
The only thing that will save GM at this juncture is to have AutoMax be the new CEO, bump the new Sierra/Silverado production up to 2012 and add a My Ford Touch system to ALL GM cars starting immediately, every day that goes by with the current dashes found in GM cars is a complete slap in the face, more like shit in the face to all of the general public, who ever this Dan Akerson thinks he is, somebody needs to go Chuck Norris on his ass because he is the most stupid CEO on the planet!!!
Release the NEW Sierra/Silverado plus C7 Corvette and stop screwing the dog you lazy bum, if AutoMax ever sees Dan Akerson he’s going to find out how to be a real CEO rather than a candy ass grease ball because AutoMax has a zero tolerance policy for losers, this Dan Akerson isn’t even fit to run a gum ball machine than alone a car company!!!
And that’s the bottom-line because AutoMax said so!!! AUTOMAX!!! :mrgreen:

GM has the technology to get better mpg, for example , someone i know bought a chevy silverado in the mid or late 80,s. The truck he bought wasn,t supposed to be shipped out. The truck he got was GM's test truck. When he checked his mpg he got over 30 mpg with a 350 v8. After that ,GM wanted to buy it back from him, But he turned them down. We don't have to get a v6 to get good mpg, But for some reason GM might use a v6 anyway.

And this is why Government Motors will fail. Businesses need trucks no matter what the fuel cost is, that is the market they are willingly giving to Ford. Ford is thrilled that GM is run by Eco-bureaucrats more concerned with what Chinese commuters need than American businesses. How is that Chevy Cruze working out with the detachable steering wheel?

This business move makes sense. Trucks do not sell well when gas prices are high. However, GM as well as other truck manufacturers should reconsider diesel engines for more than their heavy duty trucks.

I'm not so sure this is a good idea unless they need more time for engine development. They should at least release an updated body and interior. They should skip on the turbo v6 and go to a v6 diesel. The v6 diesel will get the turbo 6 mileage, but have better economy while pulling. With Ford's new power trains the only thing keeping GM trucks going out the door is that they are several thousands cheaper. Give us a new body style and interior, then do a new engine lineup in a year or two like Ford did.

That's a bummer, but it kind of makes sense. Experts are supposedly saying that gas will now hit $6 this summer instead of the expected $5 they were predicting. At least the current GM pickups are a very strong product.